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...punch than a wave whose power is confined to the surface. Another critical variable is the shape of the ocean bottom. Surfing hot spots, or "breaks," are usually places where there is a sudden transition between deep water and shallow. Thus, as waves roll in, they are forced to leap up and over an underwater barrier. For example, "Killers"--the name of the break that Knox surfed at Todos Santos--channels big ocean swells across a deep canyon onto a submerged reef. Result: waves sweep in at heights of 10 to 20 ft., then rear up, like bucking broncos...
More than anyone else, perhaps, Collins has helped fuel the growing popularity of the extreme trend in surfing known as big-wave charging. What has made it possible for dudes like Knox to take their death-defying rides is not some quantum leap in equipment design or surfing technique, but the improved ability of surfcasters to pinpoint exactly when and where a Godzilla-size swell is likely to sweep in from the sea. While there are others in the business, says Bill Sharp, director of the K2 Challenge, "Collins is the guru. He was the first...
...Ghana became the second sub-Saharan nation to have full connectivity. "We're sharing the same information as everyone else in the world," says Quaynor. His most prized client: President Rawlings, an avid Web surfer. Soon, Quaynor hopes, wireless technology will let the phone-short country leap straight into airborne access
What explains Jerry Springer's success? No doubt someone has a Theory of All Squalor stating that as politics becomes entertainment, and entertainment becomes reality, and reality becomes politics, then the leap from Monica Lewinsky to Jerry Springer is, well, something or other. Less ambitiously, we can offer this explanation: the fights. At the end of 1996, Multimedia, the company that syndicated the Springer Show, was sold and became part of the company now called USA Networks Studios. The USA executives were more liberal about what went on the air. Fights had often occurred but had been edited...
BRUSSELS: The Euro is real, and it arrives in eight months and six days. The European Union took a giant leap forward Wednesday by officially recommending 11 nations to be included in the new currency next January: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. "We are at the end of an historic process," said EU president Jacques Santer...